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title: Pushing past people instead of saying «excuse me» can knock over old… — Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pushing past people instead of saying «excuse me» can knock over older or unsteady people. Who acts: Pushing. A sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» of the everyday course o
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# Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 23

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Pushing past people instead of saying «excuse me» can knock over older or unsteady people.

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**Who acts:** Pushing · **What happens:** push, say, excuse, knock over · **To what, where:** me, older people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pushing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:23
# text = Pushing past people instead of saying «excuse me» can knock over older or unsteady people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	6	mark	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	excuse	excuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	unsteady	unsteady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | past people | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past people=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **knock over** | can | Pushing | older people |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:323-greetings-handshakes-goodbyes-please-and-table-manners.lesson:23`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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